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5 days ago · It is even questionable whether passing the test would actually show that a computer is intelligent, as the information theorist Claude Shannon and the AI pioneer John McCarthy pointed out in 1956.
3 days ago · affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. award (1971): Turing Award. award (2003): Benjamin Franklin Medal. award (2002): Programming Languages Achievement Award. award (1990): National Medal of Science.
5 days ago · Later that decade, the field of AI research was founded during a summer conference at Dartmouth College in the mid-1950s, where John McCarthy, a computer and cognitive scientist, coined the term “artificial intelligence.”
5 days ago · Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems with the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experiences.
2 days ago · In 1970, computer scientist Marvin Minsky went so far as to proclaim: “from three to eight years [from now] we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.”
4 days ago · Difference Engine. The completed portion of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, 1832. This advanced calculator was intended to produce logarithm tables used in navigation. The value of numbers was represented by the positions of the toothed wheels marked with decimal numbers. (more)
4 days ago · Computer architecture is a critical area of computing: it underpins today's technologies and drives the next generation of computing systems. We're proud of our research and innovation in this field and excited about the advances yet to come in this rapidly changing area.
